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What a wonderful record! Fountain Of Love, Stuff Up The Cracks, You Didn't Try To Call Me, Anything, Cheap Thrills, there's a whole bunch of great songs in it. I like it better than FO. It's the ultimate Frank's doo wop record. The solo that closes the album gives me chills.

Yes. Great album.
Check out the group The Matadors.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XqkgGl4ppM

Out of all the Zappa albums I listen to at work. This is the one that gives me most joy. I love it.

Greasy love songs obviously*

Yes, Greasy Love Songs. Or the original vinyl mix. Give me the THWACK of Black and Tripp, rather than the ridiculous POONCE of Wackerman.

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

Since I received Greasy Love Songs, I do reach for it more often than Cruising.

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"Everything dies baby that's a fact
But maybe everything that dies someday comes back"

+ 1

However Rick Random of my windows media player fame always selects Cruising, and the same goes for the Rose Random on the 300 disc cd player, it's always Cruising. Over the years I've noticed the Randoms seem to have their own favorites......

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That's better

Yeah I didn't understand why Zappa was so dismissive of the 60's drum sound by '84.

Not only the 60's necessarily. If I recall right Mark Pinske said FZ decided he liked the 80's drum sound so much he wanted it on all of his past albums. That didn't happen but Chad did up replacing a lot of 70's and even early 80's tracks as well as the 60's material.

Those fucking drums just ruin the whole album. Same with WOIIFTM, although that version is uncensored. I wish that ZPZ could make a '68/2012 mix-uncensored WOIIFTM. No backwards on Harry You're a Beast, and the great verse:

Better look around before you say you don't care,
shut your fucking mouth about the lenght of my hair.
How would you survive, if you were alive?
Shitty little person.

I don't have Mothermania, but I think there's an uncensored version there.

(I'm trying to figure out what I don't have Mothermania....must correct)

It is on Mothermania, which if you're into downloads is available from Zappa.com.....but being Cal you probably already new that...

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I did know that, I just don't know why I haven't purchased it yet.

To avoid a trendmonger rebuke here's the link

http://barfkoswill.shop.musictoday.com/ ... &pc=ZPDD12

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11 DOLLARS! Hey, I'm not made of money!!

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Hey Punk, where you goin' with that passport in your hand?

Who would buy Mothermania for 11 dollars? You gotta be freak or something like that...

I could buy lots of mac and cheese with that.

I actually have Greasy Love Songs and think it's great.

Anyone ever noticed that the album has a real eerie quality. The production is almost ghostly. Listen to it with no distraction and really good headphones and you'll see what I'm on about.

http://zappacast.podomatic.com/entry/20 ... 1_32-07_00

New Zappacast is a tribute to lead singer Ray Collins. Also revealed: who played the sax solo on "Anything".

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

The sax solo of anything and the intro of I'm not Satisfied too.

About TYS, my favourite tunes are the more avant garde, like The Girl In Magnesium Dress or Times Beach III. I also love the versions of other albums. Food Gathering... is the only one I don't like so much.

Can't wait to listen to this. That sax solo is actually perfect.

What I've found about Frank's huge discography is that you can always listen to something fresh, and be surprised again. For example, for the last couple of weeks I hadn't played Uncle Meat and I thought "maybe it wasn't that good". But I'm playing it now again, and it's indeed my favourite. I had forgotten how great Nine Types Of Industrial Pollution and The Legend Of The Golden Arches were! Tears in my eyes with Dog Breath Variations. And I must say The Uncle Meat Variations is my favourite Zappa song.

The Air is one of the most beautiful and singable songs ever composed.

Not my favourite of the album, but excellent too. It would make my top 50 Zappa songs easily.